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New York in Postcards 1880-1980: The Andreas Adam Collection

Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2009

The Swiss architect Andreas Adam has put together a collection of thousands of picture postcards of New York. Most of them extremely rare vintage pieces and preserved in excellent condition, they tell a multitude of New York stories, from the early development of Manhattan to the rapidly growing metropolis of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the emergence of New York as the quintessential modern American city. They also show ...

Irish Tourism 1880-1980
Irene Furlong

Irish Academic Press, 2008

This is the first comprehensive work on the history of Irish tourism development over a hundred year period and examines its economic, cultural and social effects upon the country during this time. The majority of commentators see the history of Irish tourism as beginning in the 1960s and this book demonstrates the fact that strenuous efforts were being made to promote the country as a tourist destination from the 1880s onwards. It includes much ...

Toy Buildings: 1880-1980 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

2 reviews
Patty Cooper, Dian Zillner

Schiffer Publishing, 1999

Toy Buildings 1880-1980
An outstanding book for dollhouse collectors. Toy Buildings is a must for any collector with interest from Bliss to Converse to Keystone buildings. This book is not limited to dollhouse, but covers a wide variety of toy buildings, many that my brother had. It is an excellent refernce for history of manufactures to present day values for many toy buildings of this era. The color photos are of ...

Vintage Clothing 1880-1980: Identification and Value Guide

6 reviews
Maryanne Dolan

kp books, 1995

Vintage Clothing: Worthy of having in your fashion library
This book deserves better reviews than it has received here. First of all, it was one of the very first "guides" written for vintage clothing collectors, and I still appreciate and value the nearly 300 pages of fashion images both illustrative and photographic. As for the "value" guide; we know, or should know, that prices of vintage clothing can vary wildly depending on where you live, what is ...

Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980: An Oral History
Lucinda McCray Beier

University of Illinois Press, 2008

This history of health, illness, and medical care in one downstate Illinois county offers a richly detailed account, spanning more than a century of health care, from the perspectives of county residents, nurses, doctors, and public health professionals. Drawing on a wealth of oral history interviews, hospital records, and other primary documents, Lucinda McCray Beier provides insight into home management of ill health, birth, and death; nurses? ...

History's Memory: Writing Americas Past, 1880-1980
Ellen Fitzpatrick

Harvard University Press, 2004

Enthusiasts and critics both have looked to the political upheavals of the 1960s to explain recent transformations in historical study. But how new, in fact, are our contemporary approaches to the study and writing of American history? This question lies at the heart of History's Memory , Ellen Fitzpatrick's sweeping study of the past century of American historical writing. Through careful examination of hundreds of historical essays and ...

Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980 (History of Wales)
Kenneth O. Morgan

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

In Rebirth of a Nation the acclaimed historian Kenneth O. Morgan provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive analysis of modern Welsh history. Taking as its starting-point 1880, the book covers all aspects of the nations history from political, social, economic and religious development to literary, intellectual, and sporting achievement. His absorbing account spans the years of Liberal ascendancy and of national renaissance from 1880 to 1914; the ...

American Pediatrics: The Social Dynamics of Professionalism, 1880-1980
Sydney A. Halpern

University of California Press, 1988

Today's parents routinely consult pediatricians for care of sick youngsters, information on child development, and advice on problems of child management. Yet only a hundred years ago, special medical services for children barely existed. During the intervening century, physicians defined a new field and built occupational structures that established pediatrics as a permanent division of medical practice. Professor Halpern traces the development ...

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